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Prior, who was attacked two weeks ago by a mob of angry Protestants, warned that the government would not allow "private armies" to take over from the police and the army. But during the Newtownards rally, British troops were conspicuously absent and the police kept discreetly to side streets, leading to concern that the government would not be able to contain the "third force...
...left-wing Muslims.) And he calls for a program against "heresy and atheism." As for Khomeini's claim to the Supreme Theologian's Mandate, Halabi insists it is not binding. Khomeini may have great virtue and theological scholarship, he says, but "I have received instructions from the absent Imam [the Shi'ite messiah] himself...
Almost half the student body belongs to a fraternity or sorority; as one Phi Mu puts it, "There just isn't very much social life anywhere else." But the sports oriented, rah-rah atmosphere associated with the Greeks is absent. "There's not much interest in sports around here, with the possible exception of basketball," one student from nearby Richmond says. "Hardly anyone goes to football games...
...conservative rule. Many French analysts sympathetic to Mitterrand saw the Greek socialists' victory as an affirmation that a fragile democracy had come of age. Pronounced the leftist daily Le Monde: "It is part of a democratic switch from one political party to another that has been all but absent in modern Greek politics...
...angry recipient of the Kirkpatrick letter sniffed that she was like "the absent parent who scolds her child for misbehavior committed in her absence...